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BLAST OFF: Europe’s most powerful rocket, Ariane-5, lasts just three minutes before exploding and crashing in pieces into the Atlantic after its launch from French Guyana. A technical fault was blamed.

BAMBER FAILS: Jeremy Bamber, who was jailed for life in 1986 for the murders of five members of his family at White House Farm in Essex, loses his appeal against conviction.

REPORTER RELEASED: A British journalist, Zaiba Naz Malki, and her Italian colleague, Leopoldo Sorrentino, arrive at Heathrow after being deported from Bangladesh. They were arrested while filming a Channel 4 documentary.